Improvement in animal-traps



- C.V W.-SALADEQE.

ANIMAL-TRAP.

Patented Feb. 8,1876.

INVENTORI WITNESSES N. PETERS. WOTO-UTHOGHAPNER. WASHINGTON, D, O.

UNIT D STATES- PATE T OFFICE.

evens W. SALADEE, on WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO L. DOBBINS, on ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN ANlMAL-TRAP'S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,184, dated February 8, 1876; application filed December 18, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CYRUS W.'SALA DEE,

of Washington city, in the District of Oolumbia, have invented certain Improvements in Animal-Traps, of which thefollowing is a specification embodying my said invention.

To enable others skilled in the art to makeand use my invention, I herewith submit the following general description.

The first part of my. invention consists in the employment of two parallel springs made of sheet-steel, or of narrow strips of steel, as the case may require, and in connecting the same, midway between their ends, to the bedplate of the trap. The ends of the springs are united, and operate the jaws of the trap.-

. The second part of myinvention consists in forming, as a part of the springs A, a crossbar on which to support and operate the trigger and foot-plate of the trap; and my inven tion has for its object the production of a powerful trap of less weight and occupying less space than traps of like power which have I been heretofore generally made.

I the trap. O O are the openings in the springheads NA, through which are passed the ends of the jaws of the trap. D is a cross-bar in the spring-head. F Fare the jaws. H is the foot-plate, and L the cross-bar, of the, spring or bedpIate, on which to secure and operate the trigger and foot-plate of the trap.

.The springs shown in Figs. 1v and" 2 are stamped from sheet-steel,of such form as to make the parts L, D, N, and A in one piece with the springs A A A A. The central portion of the cross-bar L is firmly riveted to the bed-plate H by means of the rivets I. To the outer end of the cross-bar L, forming a part of the springs A, is secured and operated the trigger K and foot-plate P, as is clearly seen in Fig. 1. Thus'the trigger and foot-plate are,

virtually, secured to one side of the springs,

and not to the bed-plate, as in the usual way. As a modificationof my invention, I use two straight strips of steel, A A A A, as seen in Fig. 3, secure their central portion to the cross-bar L of-the bed-plate H by rivets I, and unite their outer ends by separate springheads N D A. In this form the. springs will act upon the jaws of the trap in the sameman-. ner as that before described.

I claim 1. In an animal-trap, the jaws FF, in combination with the springs A A A A, secured at their central portion to the bed-plate H, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The spring A A A A,having the central cross-bar L, in combination with the trigger K and foot-plate P, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses:

V HERM. LAUTEN, ABBY G. SALADEE.

' CYRUS .W. SALADEE. 

